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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Marcel Proust

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
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
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
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction

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