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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Marcel Proust

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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking

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