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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

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade

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