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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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