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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality

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