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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

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