If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.Marcel Proust
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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
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