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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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 must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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