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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.

Marcel Proust

The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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

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