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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Attitude Believe Confidence Inspirational Positive Way
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Born Nature Resurrection Surprise
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Brother Individual Man Monster Opinion Philosophy
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Harm Life Misfortune Power Thorn
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Awareness Consciousness Infinity Knowledge Meditation
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Canvas Imagination Love Nature
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Family Man Mother In Law Sucess Surprise
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Abundance Comfort Poor Poverty Rich Supply
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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