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

Marcel Proust

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World

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