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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth

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