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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth 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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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