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

Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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 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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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

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