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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

There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
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
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
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
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
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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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

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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