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Marcel Proust

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait

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