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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying 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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

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