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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

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