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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.

Marcel Proust

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur 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

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