It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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