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

Marcel Proust

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
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
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
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
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
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
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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

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