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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

People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves

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