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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

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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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

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