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

Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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 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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality

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