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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

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth

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