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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom

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