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We love only what we do not wholly possess.

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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

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