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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

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
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature

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