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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Marcel Proust

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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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