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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

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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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

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