It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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