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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.

Marcel Proust

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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

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