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

Marcel Proust

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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View

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