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

Marcel Proust

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy 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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears

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