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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

Marcel Proust

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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