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

Marcel Proust

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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 courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

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