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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

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