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

Marcel Proust

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
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
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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 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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery

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