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

Marcel Proust

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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
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
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom

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