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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time

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