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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Marcel Proust

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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
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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View

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