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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Marcel Proust

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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

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