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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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction

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