You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUSTIt 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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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