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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

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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time

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.

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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.

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