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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

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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 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

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