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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time

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