Were it not for habit, life would seem delightful to beings constantly under threat of dying, in other words to all humankind.
("In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower")
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But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.
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Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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