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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
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 think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World

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