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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

Marcel Proust

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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
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
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
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
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

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