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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
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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