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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

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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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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Atheist Creation Perfection
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

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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