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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
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 artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice

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