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

Marcel Proust

Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
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
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
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View

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