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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity

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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