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

Marcel Proust

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather 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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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 artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice

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

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