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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World

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