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

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
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity

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

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