It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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