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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Marcel Proust

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
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 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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather 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

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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