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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.

Marcel Proust

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion

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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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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