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

Marcel Proust

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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 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
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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way

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