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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.

Marcel Proust

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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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 are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph

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