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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
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
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
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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