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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

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
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
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
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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 only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel

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