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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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

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