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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

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love 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
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place

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