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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
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
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
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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

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