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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Marcel Proust

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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember

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