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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

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World

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