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

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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 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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
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

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

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