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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

Marcel Proust

We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

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