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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

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

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