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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Marcel Proust

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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

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