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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul

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