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.
MARCEL PROUSTOnly by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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