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

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel 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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

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

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