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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

Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
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

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