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

Marcel Proust

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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

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