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

Marcel Proust

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
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
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
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

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