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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Marcel Proust

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

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