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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

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
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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