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

Marcel Proust

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 highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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
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
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
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
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

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