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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

We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
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
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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
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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