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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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 live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
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

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