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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

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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 are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See 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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