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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Marcel Proust

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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
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
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

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