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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.

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
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 are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible

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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