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

Marcel Proust

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

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