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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 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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
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

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