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

Marcel Proust

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality

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