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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.

Marcel Proust

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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
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
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
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
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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 healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

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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