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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Marcel Proust

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
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
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
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
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 courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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

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