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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUST

Love Moments Satisfaction
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUST

Happiness Love

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