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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
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
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth

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