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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

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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
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
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
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

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