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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
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

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