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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Marcel Proust

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
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 are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time

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