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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

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