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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

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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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