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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

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
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
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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking

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