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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
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
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade

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