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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

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
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
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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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