It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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 I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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 woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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