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Desire makes everything blossom.

Marcel Proust

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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel

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