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

Marcel Proust

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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 do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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

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

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