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We love only what we do not wholly possess.

Marcel Proust

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
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 must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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 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
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

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