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

Marcel Proust

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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
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
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
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral

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