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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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time

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

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