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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

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
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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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Break Distance Food Past Taste
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
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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Imperfection Judgement View

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