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

Marcel Proust

The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
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

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

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