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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

Marcel Proust

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Literature Lying Time
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade

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