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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion

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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