Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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