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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

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
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality

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