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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Marcel Proust

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

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