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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Marcel Proust

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different 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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful

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