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

Marcel Proust

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity

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

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