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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

Marcel Proust

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
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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

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