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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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