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

Marcel Proust

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life 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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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

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