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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

Marcel Proust

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
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

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