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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Marcel Proust

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

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