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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.

Marcel Proust

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember

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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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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