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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 do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

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