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

Marcel Proust

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
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
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree

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