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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
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
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love

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