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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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 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
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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

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