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 PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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