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

Marcel Proust

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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
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
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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time

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

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