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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
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
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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

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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