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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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