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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 courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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 picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
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

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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