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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Marcel Proust

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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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