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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
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
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
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
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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

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