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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Marcel Proust

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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
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
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
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

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