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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Marcel Proust

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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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 serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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

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