The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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