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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 Proust

You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
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
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
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World

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