Truth is a point of view about things.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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