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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 at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
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
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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

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