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

Marcel Proust

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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
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
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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

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

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