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

Marcel Proust

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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World

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