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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Marcel Proust

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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 is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears

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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