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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Marcel Proust

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears

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