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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

Marcel Proust

The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
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
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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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Life Moments Wait
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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

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