It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUSTA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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