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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose

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