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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

Marcel Proust

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
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
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
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
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

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