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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.

Marcel Proust

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
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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality

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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