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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.

Marcel Proust

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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 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 is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves

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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