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

Marcel Proust

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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time

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