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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

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
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
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
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep 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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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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