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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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

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