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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

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste

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