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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.

Marcel Proust

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence 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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
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
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

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