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We love only what we do not wholly possess.

Marcel Proust

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 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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

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