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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

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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 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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life 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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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

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