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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Marcel Proust

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity

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