Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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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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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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