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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

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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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