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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Marcel Proust

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose

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