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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose

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