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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Marcel Proust

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking

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