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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Marcel Proust

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
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
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People 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
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
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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

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