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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful

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