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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

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality

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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