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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 comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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 bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion

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