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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste

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