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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

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
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
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
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
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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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature

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