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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.

Marcel Proust

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
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
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
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
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
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
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

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