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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Marcel Proust

A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
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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Progress Reality Road
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

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