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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.

Marcel Proust

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 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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying 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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears

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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