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

Marcel Proust

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
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy 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
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
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature

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

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