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All that I grasped was that to repeat what everybody else was thinking was, in politics, the mark not of an inferior but of a superior mind.

— Marcel Proust

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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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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

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It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures become, by habit, permanent.

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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