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

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
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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery

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