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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.

Marcel Proust

We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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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