A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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