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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

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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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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

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