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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful

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