It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTThe 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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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