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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur 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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
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

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