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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Marcel Proust

Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

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