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

Marcel Proust

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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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
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

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