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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Marcel Proust

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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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 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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
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
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

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