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

Marcel Proust

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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

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

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