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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Marcel Proust

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence 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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
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
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way

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