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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Marcel Proust

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUST

Communication Miracle Reading Solitude

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