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

Marcel Proust

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
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
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself

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