The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
~ Marcel Proust
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
~ Marcel Proust
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When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
~ Milan Kundera
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If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.
~ Hannah Arendt
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When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.
~ Confucius
Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
~ Milan Kundera
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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
~ Milan Kundera
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Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
~ Lao Zi
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“Libertarianism is a half-baked ideology that a certain type of young man gravitates to because he is unwilling – or perhaps unable – to think beyond his sociopathic self absorption.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Lao Zi
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