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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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

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