We love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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