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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.

Marcel Proust

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
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
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 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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
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
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
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

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