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.
MARCEL PROUSTWe live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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