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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction

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