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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying 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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

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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