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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Marcel Proust

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
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature

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