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

Marcel Proust

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
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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