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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Marcel Proust

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking

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