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.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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