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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose

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