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

Marcel Proust

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
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
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time

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

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