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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

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
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
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
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade

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