If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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