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Desire makes everything blossom.

Marcel Proust

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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree

Desire makes everything blossom.

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