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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

We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
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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Dream Inspirational Love Time
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
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
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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

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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