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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

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
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
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
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
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
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

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