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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Marcel Proust

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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

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