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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
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

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