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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Literature Lying Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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 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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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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Dream Inspirational Love Time
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
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 only paradise is paradise lost.

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