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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

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
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

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

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