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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

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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
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
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

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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