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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

Marcel Proust

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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction

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