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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

Marcel Proust

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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View

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