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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Marcel Proust

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

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