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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.

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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy 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
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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