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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

Marcel Proust

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
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
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral

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