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

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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World

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