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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman

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