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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Marcel Proust

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
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
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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

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