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Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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