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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

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