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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love 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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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