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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

Marcel Proust

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
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
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
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
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
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
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

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

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