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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Marcel Proust

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUST

Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose

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