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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

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
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
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
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

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