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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Marcel Proust

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

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