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

Marcel Proust

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship

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