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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Marcel Proust

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

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