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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Marcel Proust

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People 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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

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