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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

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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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
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
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
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

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