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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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 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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature

The only paradise is paradise lost.

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