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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Marcel Proust

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

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