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

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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

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