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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Marcel Proust

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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible

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