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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 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
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves

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