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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Marcel Proust

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

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