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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember

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