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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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 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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves

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