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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Marcel Proust

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait

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