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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Marcel Proust

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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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 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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears

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