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

Marcel Proust

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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 artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
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
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

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