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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
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
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
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude

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