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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
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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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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