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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Marcel Proust

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

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