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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Marcel Proust

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
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
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
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

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