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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

Marcel Proust

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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 woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

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