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

Marcel Proust

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time

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