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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

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.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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

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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