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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

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking

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