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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Marcel Proust

The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

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