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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

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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
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
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
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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Art Deep Thankful World
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice

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