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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

Marcel Proust

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
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 courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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

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