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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

Marcel Proust

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
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
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
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom

There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

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