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

Marcel Proust

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
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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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying 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
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

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