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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Marcel Proust

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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 are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
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 bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom

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