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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Marcel Proust

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
MARCEL PROUST

Oneself Opportunity Thinking
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
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

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