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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time

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