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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.

Marcel Proust

There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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
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 only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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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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