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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.

Marcel Proust

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
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
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad

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