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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills u...more

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To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.

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We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar to those which we have constantly repeated to ourse...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