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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Marcel Proust

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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

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