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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

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