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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Marcel Proust

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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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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 think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

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