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

Marcel Proust

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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

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