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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Marcel Proust

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

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