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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Marcel Proust

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
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way

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