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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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 live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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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