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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

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
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World

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