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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence 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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way

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