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

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
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
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
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
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way

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