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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

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
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.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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.
MARCEL PROUST

Love Moments Satisfaction

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