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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

Marcel Proust

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
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

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

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