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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking

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