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Truth is a point of view about things.

Marcel Proust

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 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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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

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