"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."

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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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"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."

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"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

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"There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind."

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"For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill."

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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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"A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped."

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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 regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity."

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"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

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"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."

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"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."

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"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey."

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"Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much."

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"A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love."

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"Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey."

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"Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true."

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"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit."

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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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"In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things."

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"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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"That translucent alabaster of our memories."

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"Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen."

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"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination."

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