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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

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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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
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

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