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"We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
People
"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."
Experience
"And so too, in later years, when I began to write a book of my own, and the quality of some sentences seemed so inadequate that I could not make up my mind to go on with the undertaking. I would find the equivalent in Bergotte. But it was only then, when I read them in his pages, that I could enjoy them; when it was I myself who composed them, in my anxiety that they should exactly reproduce what I had perceived in my mind's eye, and in my fear of their not turning out "true to life," how could I find time to ask myself whether what I was writing was pleasing!"
Creativity
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
Happiness
"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."
Nature
"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity."
Psychology
"People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked."
Emotion
"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."
Love
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
Time
"And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory."
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"The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources."
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"It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were."
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"You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!"
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"A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble."
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"The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
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"We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we've lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it."
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"It is good to focus, but never forget to look around. If you focus on the wrong target, you may miss seeing all of the beauty around you."
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"Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it."
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"Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being."
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Personal Development
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