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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

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves

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