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We love only what we do not wholly possess.

Marcel Proust

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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

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