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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

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

Marcel Proust
Waiting, Moments, Left
Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.526, Yale University Press

We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.

Marcel Proust
Years, Long, Waiting
Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2893, Delphi Classics

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

Marcel Proust
Truth, Character, Waiting
Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.80, Modern Library

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