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

Marcel Proust

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy 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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUST

Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth

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