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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

Marcel Proust

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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

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