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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Marcel Proust

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
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
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
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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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Imperfection Judgement View

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

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