The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
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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.Marcel Proust
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
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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.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
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Love is a reciprocal torture.
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