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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.

Marcel Proust

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise

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