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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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.
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Atheist Creation Perfection

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