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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Marcel Proust

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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
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
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
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

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