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

Marcel Proust

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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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