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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Marcel Proust

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
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
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

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