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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

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
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time

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