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We love only what we do not wholly possess.

Marcel Proust

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

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