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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

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
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
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
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
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
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

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