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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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space

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