The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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