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

Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion

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

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