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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude

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