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Marcel Proust Quotes: People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.
         

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.


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

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



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



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.



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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



Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.





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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.



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I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

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