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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Marcel Proust

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
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
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth

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