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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
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
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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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Atheist Creation Perfection
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction

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