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| The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. |
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| The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. |
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| The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. |
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| The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. |
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| The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter |
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| The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement. |
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| The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent |
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| The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity |
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| The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves. |
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| The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train. |
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| The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. |
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| The only paradise is paradise lost |
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| The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes |
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| The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes |
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| The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself |
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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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| The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. |
| Discovery; Travel |
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| The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people. |
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| The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains |
| Passion; Time |
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