Desire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTFor 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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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