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

Marcel Proust

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
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
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
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom

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