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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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

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