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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.

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
Long, Waiting, Miracle

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust
Inspirational, Life, Positive

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust
Way, Destination, New Ways

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust
Friendship, Happiness, Happy
Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Marcel Proust
Memories, Past, Remembrance

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust
Wise, Wisdom, Im Sorry

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.

Marcel Proust
Succeed, Chance, Catching

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Marcel Proust
Thinking, Opportunity, Interesting
Marcel Proust, Philip Kolb (1992). “Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1910-1917”, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Marcel Proust
Wise, Wisdom, Eye

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust
Desire, Possession, Fades

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Marcel Proust
Sky, Trying, Patches
Marcel Proust (2016). “Swann's Way”, p.88, Marcel Proust

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Marcel Proust
Inspirational, Strength, Powerful
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Marcel Proust
Memories, Lying, Men
Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive”, p.515, Random House

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust
Simple, Stupidity, Intellectual
Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

Marcel Proust
World, Creation, Creation Of The World
Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4455, Delphi Classics

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Marcel Proust
Entrepreneur, Decision, Luck

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

Marcel Proust
French Love
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.534, Wordsworth Editions

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust
Happiness, Sympathy, Depression
A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Marcel Proust
Art, World, Thanks
Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.161, Marcel Proust

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Marcel Proust
Reality, Two, Fantasy
Marcel Proust (2002). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”, Viking Press

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

Marcel Proust
Believe, Open Minded, States
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1240, Wordsworth Editions

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Marcel Proust
Mean, Reality, Love Is
Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4369, Delphi Classics

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust
Paradise, Lost

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

Marcel Proust
Memories, Wander, Our Memories
1927 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve '.

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

Marcel Proust
Food, Past, Smell
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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