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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel 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
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
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
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves

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