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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude

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