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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women

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