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

Marcel Proust

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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

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