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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

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection

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