We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTFor 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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 don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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