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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking

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