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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

Marcel Proust

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
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
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
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
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
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women

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