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

Marcel Proust

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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
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
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 time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph

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