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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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
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
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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Chance Satisfaction Success
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
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

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