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Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had...more

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look you, there are only two classes of men, the magnanimous, and the rest; and I have reached an age when one has to take sides, to decide once and f...more

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Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolis...more

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I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time...more

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I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past, if suddenly we desire to see them again, ...more

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I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihil...more

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The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.

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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

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Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.

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Had I been less firmly resolved upon settling down definitively to work, I should perhaps have made an effort to begin at once. But since my resolutio...more

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But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty ...more