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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Marcel Proust

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUST

Destination See Way
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUST

Life Sky Yourself
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUST

Dream Inspirational Love Time
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
MARCEL PROUST

Courage Eyes Opinion
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise

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