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

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
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

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

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