A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.Marcel Proust
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
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It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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