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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Marcel Proust

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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion

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