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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

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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 live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
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 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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