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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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