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

Marcel Proust

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
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom

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