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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Marcel Proust

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
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
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
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
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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Art Deep Thankful World

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