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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
MARCEL PROUST

Oneself Opportunity Thinking
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

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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