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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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