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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

Marcel Proust

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
MARCEL PROUST

Literature Love Reality
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUST

Philosophy Photograph
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People 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
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
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
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUST

Dream Inspirational Love Time

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