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

Marcel Proust

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity

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