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

Marcel Proust

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
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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

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