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

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
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

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