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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

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
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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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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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.

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