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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

Marcel Proust

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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 must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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

Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

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