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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
MARCEL PROUST

Progress Reality Road
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
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
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
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality

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