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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

Marcel Proust

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
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
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time

There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

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