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We love only what we do not wholly possess.

Marcel Proust

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space 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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

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