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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Marcel Proust

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise

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