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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

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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

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