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

Marcel Proust

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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
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
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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality

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