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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality

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