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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
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
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
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

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