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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
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
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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

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