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

Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth

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

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