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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.

Marcel Proust

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
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
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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Beauty Possible Promise
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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 courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
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
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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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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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