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

Marcel Proust

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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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

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