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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.

Marcel Proust

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring

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