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

Marcel Proust

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

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

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