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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Marcel Proust

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World

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