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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.

Marcel Proust

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.

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