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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather 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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves

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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