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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Marcel Proust

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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 must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

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