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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust

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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
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
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
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
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
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
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
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
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade

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