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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Marcel Proust

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
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

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