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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
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
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

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