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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 artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying 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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Life Moments Wait
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
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
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature

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