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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.

Marcel Proust

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Literature Lying Time
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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

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