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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Marcel Proust

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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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

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