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

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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

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

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