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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Marcel Proust

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 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
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 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
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

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