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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
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
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
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

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