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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

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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time 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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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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Chance Satisfaction Success
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time

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