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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

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space 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
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
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
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
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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

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