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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

Marcel Proust

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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

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