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

Marcel Proust

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship

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