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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.

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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 passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature

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