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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Marcel Proust

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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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