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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love 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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth

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