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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.

Marcel Proust

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

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