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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
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

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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