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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

Marcel Proust

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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 live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose

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