You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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