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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

Marcel Proust

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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
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
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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place

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