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

Marcel Proust

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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

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