If what Proust says is true, ...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.