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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

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
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
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion

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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