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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

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