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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

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
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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