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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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 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
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 be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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

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