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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

Marcel Proust

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
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
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing

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