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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

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