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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

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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love 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
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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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Progress Reality Road
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth

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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