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Desire makes everything blossom.

Marcel Proust

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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
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 picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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

Desire makes everything blossom.

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