We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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