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

Marcel Proust

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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 change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible

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