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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
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 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
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
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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

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