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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

Marcel Proust

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World

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