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

Marcel Proust

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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 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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

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

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