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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring

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