When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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