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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

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
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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 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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion

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