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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
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
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View

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