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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Marcel Proust

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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction

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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