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

Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success

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