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The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
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
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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy 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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise

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