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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

Marcel Proust

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
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 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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery

Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

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