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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People

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