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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

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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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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