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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

A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
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
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
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
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
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality

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