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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Marcel Proust

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place

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