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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

Marcel Proust

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
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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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
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
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves

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