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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Marcel Proust

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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

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