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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Marcel Proust

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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Progress Reality Road
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
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
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 only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel

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