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

Marcel Proust

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People 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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection

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