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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
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

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