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.
MARCEL PROUSTIt 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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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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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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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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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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