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

Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
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

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