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

Marcel Proust

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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place

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