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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

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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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 artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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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Progress Reality Road
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity

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