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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
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
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
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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