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 PROUSTThere 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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