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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

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

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