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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
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
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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

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