Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

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When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

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There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.

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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

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