Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUSTDo 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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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