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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

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time

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

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