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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Marcel Proust

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUST

Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
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
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

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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