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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Marcel Proust

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
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
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, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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

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