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

Marcel Proust

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way

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

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