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

Marcel Proust

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
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality

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