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

Marcel Proust

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
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
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
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World

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

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