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

Marcel Proust

A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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
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
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People

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