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

Marcel Proust

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time

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