The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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 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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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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