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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait

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