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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
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 woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery

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