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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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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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Happiness Moral
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom

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