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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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 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
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
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose

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