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

Marcel Proust

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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way

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