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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

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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
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
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

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