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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Marcel Proust

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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice

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