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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
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
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
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
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

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