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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.

Marcel Proust

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
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
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
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise

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