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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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 creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World

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