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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.

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
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
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space

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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