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

Marcel Proust

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women

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