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

Marcel Proust

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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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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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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