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

Marcel Proust

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
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
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery

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