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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

Marcel Proust

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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

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