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

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking

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