We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.Marcel Proust
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
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Love is a reciprocal torture.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes
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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.
Marcel Proust
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