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

Marcel Proust

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying 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
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion

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