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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.

Marcel Proust

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
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
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World

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