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Desire makes everything blossom.

Marcel Proust

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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
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 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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time

Desire makes everything blossom.

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