Desire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTThe courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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 is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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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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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.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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