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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See 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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World

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