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

Marcel Proust

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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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