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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 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
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
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
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
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
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
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy

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