Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTTo 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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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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