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

Marcel Proust

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time

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

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