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

Marcel Proust

Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
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
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
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 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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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

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