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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.

Marcel Proust

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
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 change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait

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