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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad

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