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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

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love

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