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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

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
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time

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