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

Marcel Proust

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
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves

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