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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Marcel Proust

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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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

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