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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

Marcel Proust

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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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

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