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

Marcel Proust

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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
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
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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery

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