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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

Marcel Proust

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

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