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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

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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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Art Ourselves See World
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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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