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

Marcel Proust

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul

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