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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View

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