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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

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success

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