Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
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In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrociousMarcel Proust
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
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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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When, from a long distant past, nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised for a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest and bear unfaltering ... the vast structure of recollection.
Marcel Proust
A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
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