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We love only what we do not wholly possess.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

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