We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

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Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.

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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust in Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896)
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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

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