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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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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Chance Satisfaction Success
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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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
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
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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