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

Marcel Proust

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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
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
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

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

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