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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Marcel Proust

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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

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