It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUST
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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