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

Marcel Proust

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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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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