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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

Marcel Proust

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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports 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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

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