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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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

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