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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Marcel Proust

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves

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