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Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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