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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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying 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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time

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