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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.

Marcel Proust

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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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