We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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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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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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