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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Marcel Proust

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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

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