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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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

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