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

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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves

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