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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Marcel Proust

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

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