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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

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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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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