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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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
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
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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.
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Desire One Liner
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
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
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World

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