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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

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
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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 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
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View

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