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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

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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
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
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner

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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