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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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
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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place

The only paradise is paradise lost.

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