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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion

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