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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Marcel Proust

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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity 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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

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