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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.

Marcel Proust

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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 creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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