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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Marcel Proust

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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
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

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