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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait

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