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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People 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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way

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