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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

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