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Marcel Proust

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
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
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember

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