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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.

Marcel Proust

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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 think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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

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