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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

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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success 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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember

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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