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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.

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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
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
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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking

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