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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Marcel Proust

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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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