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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Marcel Proust

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
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
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
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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality

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