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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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

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