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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Marcel Proust

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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship

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