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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

Marcel Proust

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
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.
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Art Deep Thankful World
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

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