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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Marcel Proust

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.
MARCEL PROUST

Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
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
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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

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