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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Marcel Proust

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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice

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