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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time

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