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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Marcel Proust

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

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