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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember

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