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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Marcel Proust

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy 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
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
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
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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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