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

Marcel Proust

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.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
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
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

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