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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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

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