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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World

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