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

Marcel Proust

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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

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